Sources of international data
- MEDISTAT:
Health information from the National University of Singapore http://biomed.nus.sg/MSTAT/stats.html
Very detailed information on the state of health care in Singapore. Data
on other countries is not yet ready.
- ESRC
Data Archive http://dasun2.essex.ac.uk/index.html
A searchable collection of almost every data set in the UK, including the
British Census. On-line orders and delivery are available.
- European
data archives http://www.nsd.uib.no/cessda/europe.html
Clickable image map of all European data archives
- Statistics Canada's health information http://www.statcan.ca/Documents/English/Pgdb/People/health.htm
Includes tables on Canadian health expenditures, Average payments, Average
weekly earnings of health profesisonals, Selected notifiable diseases,
Infant mortality rates, Cancer statistics, Vital Statistics, and more.
- World
Health Organization Statistical Information system (WHOSIS) http://www.who.ch/whosis/whosis.htm
WHO databases include "Health-For-All Global Indicators", "Global
Health Situation and Projections-Estimates, "WHO Global Database on
Child Growth", and "Malaria Information", among others.
Information is organized among topics such as "Emergency and Humanitarian
Action", "Mortality Data", "Nursing and Midwifery,
"Terminology Information System (WHOTERM)", "World Health
Report 1995", "Emerging and Other Communicable Diseases, "Diarrhoeal
and Acute Respiratory Diseases", and "Tropical Diseases".
- National Institute of Statistics of Italy's Health Data
http://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/embitaly/ItalFiles/Statis_Data.html#HEALTH
- The Demographic
and Health Surveys (DHS) program http://www.macroint.com/dhs/
The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) program is one of the world's
largest primary sources of information on women, men and their families
in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Since 1984, DHS has collaborated
with developing country institutions to conduct national surveys on fertility,
family planning, maternal and child health and household living conditions.
Funded primarily by the United States Agency for International Development
(USAID), the DHS program is implemented by Macro International Inc. in
Calverton, Maryland.
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75: Health Policy
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Ellen Magenheim.